Open Directory - Recreation: Antiques: Silver and Flatware
See also: - A study focusing on the family connections of 17th through 19th century American silversmiths and engravers. Includes an index of names and images of the marks each used. - ASCAS is an association for collectors and lovers of antique silver. Includes informative and historical articles, and newsletter archive. - A study focusing on the Arts and Crafts metalwork movement in Chicago, especially The Kalo Shop, America's longest-lived silversmith operation. Includes examples and images of marks. - A photographic directory of American, British, European and Mexican silver maker's marks and hallmarks found on antique sterling and coin silver. - Collection of antique silver bookmarks, featuring many unique pieces. The bookmarks are mainly silver but include brass, copper, celluloid, gold, enameled and jeweled examples. - Resource for learning about collecting silver, silversmiths, flatware and holloware with a question and answer forum. - An informational site about Georgian silver sugar tongs, including makers, hallmarks, assay offices and images of tongs. - A forum dedicated to collecting silverware with sections on reading hallmarks, cleaning and restoration. Most suitable for beginner and intermediate collectors. - Informative articles, resources and news about antique silver, silverplate and stainless flatware, holloware and smalls. - A personal collection of antique silver and objects of vertu, primarily Continental, with an image index of the corresponding marks. - Silver and Silver Hallmarks. A site to aid in the study and identification of the marks struck on silver, including a brief history of English silver, bookshop, world silver marks and an Exchange to post and reply to queries. - Reference site for collectors of tea tongs by the author of "Eighteenth Century Silver Tea Tongs". Includes a forum and newly-discovered information since the book was published. - Reference site for designer William Spratling with more than 300 photos, tips, history and a question and answer forum. - Information and history of tea infusers. Visitors may submit tea ball images from their own collections. - Charleston, South Carolina Silver Lady, Dawn Evers Corley, offers classes on antique silver and educational lectures at Planters Inn, Charleston Place and Wentworth Mansion. - Details and history of a boxed chalice and paten presented to St Michael's and All Angels' Church, Smethwick in 1901 by Thomas Lutwyche Millward in memory of his wife Prudence. - This is a directory of American Silver marks often seen on sterling or coin silver flatware and hollowware. - A forum for an exchange of information about silverware and cutlery of all sorts with a particular focus on French silver, especially nineteenth-century pieces. - This historical reference for the Baltimore silversmith includes date and year marks, pattern images, vintage catalogs and advertising, and family information.
